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I find it alarming that nearly 80% of this article was written by a single editor, and that the article, while in-depth, seems to lack any meaningful acknowledgement of negatives of Muizzu or his policies and seems to be a mouthpiece for an official government narrative. The article seems to me heavily skewed to be pro-Muizzu, including by using sources affiliated with the subject. For instance, the Economic Policy section says "Muizzu has also decided to form a creative economy in the Maldives", referenced with three sources that are all predicated on what Muizzu himself has said and without any third-party interpretation given. The Presidents Office [sic] is used for 15 references, while the President's Office [sic] is used for another 15. There are also 5 YouTube interviews of Muizzu, and 3 Maldives Embassy statements referenced (Maldives ambassadors are appointed by the president). Counting those alone, over a quarter of this article's references consist of information given out by him and his administration.
Before you saw it, I spent some time yesterday removing prose from the article that had been copied directly from various news sites, with no evidence of it being compatibly licensed. I haven't asked for a revdel yet, because I wanted to be certain I'd removed all offending material. (I suspect prose from the foreign language sources may also have been translated and added, for which a bilingual editor would be very useful). During this process, I noticed that a lot of prose had also been copied from the Presidents office sites. This is obviously a NPOV concern, but fortuantly not a copyright one. I might have time in the next few weeks to start helpinv, but I'm not experienced at editing political BLPs. But yeah. I agree the article has issues. I advised @MAL MALDIVE: to withdraw the GA nomination at this time, but I'm going to give them some time to do so before escalating. (Unless you disagree?) GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 17:10, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
From what I know I don't think anything dramatic needs to be done yet other than rebalancing the article and using different references. I'll try to contribute to that! I don't think there's enough evidence to accuse bad faith, since at a glance MAL MALDIVE seems to have made good and balanced contributions to other articles like this one.
@MAL MALDIVE Sorry if I came across as too harsh in my first comment here— I came to this article looking through edits of someone else who I suspect is a bad faith editor, which may have affected my tone. The balance is a big problem, though. If you'd be up for adding some more third-party references and analysis that would be great! Placeholderer (talk) 20:53, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
